Monitoring the birth of an industry
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH Well the ‘repeal and replace’ health reform war is apparently shifting into overdrive via the selection of Congressman Paul Ryan to join the Romney ticket. This is a content rich conversation with something for everyone as we reconcile ‘ACA-esque’ RomneyCare with the voucher based weapon of mass Medicare destruction aka …
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By Gregg A. Masters, MPH Contextualizing the competitive market uptake given the ‘muddy waters’ aka hand-wringing, hedging, side-stepping or simply the ‘sensible accumulation of more data’ before taking the plunge into the controversial, in some quarters, Medicare Shared Savings Program via an ACO, will get a tad clearer as the deadline for submitting applications to CMS …
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By Larry G. Raff, MPH, President, Copley Raff Article originally appeared on Becker’s Hospital Review Magazine Don’t look now, but the face of healthcare in the United States is about to change. The results will be better care, better patient outcomes, lower costs (or slowing of cost increases) and more financially sound providers. It would appear …
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By Gregg A. Masters, MPH The clock has been officially ticking for the more mature ACO Pioneer class and recently anointed, perhaps less sophisticated pool of market entrants, in the Advanced Payment Model or standard Medicare Shared Savings Program. Clearly, top of mind strategic questions du’ jour in many board rooms and standing committee conversations …
Continue reading “Standing Up the ACO: A View from Ground Zero”
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH A Profile of ACO’s Selected for July 1, 2012 Start Date Per CMS Annoucement: On July 9, 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the selection of 89 additional Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to participate in the Medicare Shared Saving Program. The selected organizations will take responsibility …
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH We all love infographics, right? Well, courtesy of the good folks at The Advisory Board, aka @TheAdvisoryBd check out the updated map and associated legend to track with the incidence of certain ACO model types as they inevitably pepper the US landscape. For complete blog post, click here.
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH Can you feel it? Amidst the continued uncertainty spawned by the very principals who most directly hope to benefit from the continued diversion if not outright ‘anti ACA’ (i.e., Affordable Care Act) propaganda are data suggesting a possible shift in not only attitude but commitment to ‘accountable care’ and the …
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH This provided courtesy of Deloitte’s ‘Special Edition Health Care Reform Memo: June 29, 2012’ where long term healthcare industry advisor and wonk Paul Keckly opines: The decision was a bit of a surprise: I expected the law to be upheld; I did not suspect the mandate would be upheld, nor …
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By Gregg A. Masters, MPH Courtesy of a tweet via Gary Levin aka @glevin1 we note the following @Google+ Hangout post SCOTUS ruling discussion. NOTE: there is a slight delay in the clip. The chat is facilitated by David Firestone aka @fstonenyt and includes an eclectic mix of the academic, think tank and ideological spectrum including Maggie Mahar, aka @Maggie Mahar, @UCBerkeley …
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH WSJ Editorial Page Editor Paul Gigot handicaps the highly anticipated SCOTUS ruling following the disgusting ‘silenced majority’ ad copy piece fronting an otherwise informative clip (shame on the WSJ, they know better!). This is more evidence of the real world impact via the triumph of Citizens United and the more recent ‘we …
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